Ventilation: A Breath of Fresh Air for Your Excelsior Springs Home and Indoor Air Quality

When you think of indoor air quality, you might imagine the fresh, clean spring air coming through an open window and a comfortable home—a feeling you may wish for all year. Unfortunately, the weather in Excelsior Springs makes this difficult during the more severe months. Is it necessary to give up this fresh air just because the weather isn’t nice? The answer is “no.” With appropriate ventilation, your indoor air quality can be at its finest—no matter what it’s like outside.

Ventilation requires more than just opening a few windows or doors in your home. While it's positively revitalizing on beautiful, mild days, it’s not something you can do year-round in Excelsior Springs. The positive is that technological advances have allowed us to replicate the benefits of clean, fresh air flowing through your windows and doors using your heating and cooling equipment.

By drawing in just the right amount of fresh, outdoor air, today’s ventilation systems provide you with the perks of traditional ventilation like eliminating odors, chemicals and other contaminants from your indoor air. This process removes stale air from your home and generates nicer feeling air. It’s a great way to make your home’s air as comfortable as possible without wasting energy.

There are two types of ventilation systems available: Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs) and Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs). Because of the climate, it's recommended that homes in most of the United States and all of Canada to use HRVs. ERVs are used most often in the muggy southern regions.

Improving ventilation is just one thing you can do to get better indoor air quality. We’ve got a number of other ways to help you improve indoor air quality, from using dehumidifiers to improving air filtration and utilizing air purification. Give Colvin's Inc a call at 816-630-2702. We are here to do everything we can to improve your home’s air quality.

With more than 100 years in the field, Lennox has continuously provided industry-leading innovation and technology while maintaining strict durability and reliability standards. The experts at Colvin's Inc help bring those standards to Excelsior Springs so that you can always maintain complete home comfort. If you’re looking for a new HVAC system or even if you just have a question about what we carry, give us a shout at 816-630-2702 or set up an appointment with us online. We’d love to hear from you.